Scott has the insight into nature, but he has no eye at all for grace; while Thackeray, who, in some respects, comes nearest to John Bunyan of them all, would be the foremost to confess that he is not worthy to touch the shoe-latchet of the Bedford tinker. As Dr. Duncan said in his class one day when telling us to read Augustine's Autobiography and Halyburton's:- "But," he said, "be prepared for this, that the tinker beats them all!" "Methinks," says Browning, "in this God speaks, no tinker hath such powers."英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
He said, Let me a little open that Scripture to you: AS EVERY MAN HATH RECEIVED THE GIFT; that is, said he, as every one hath received a trade, so let him follow it. If any man have received a gift of tinkering, as thou hast done, let him follow his tinkering. And so other men their trades. And the divine his calling, etc.英文原著 · 《Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners》
Is it indeed so?" cried the Tinker eagerly. "Prythee tell it speedily, for I am a tinker by trade,
as thou seest, and as I am in my trade I am greedy for news,
even as a priest is greedy for farthings."英文原著 · 《The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood》
Then Robin Hood laughed aloud and quickly took the warrant
from out the Tinker's pouch with his deft fingers. "Sly art thou, Tinker," quoth he, "but not yet, I bow,
art thou as sly as that same sly thief Robin Hood."英文原著 · 《The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood》
"King Edward IV. and the Tanner of Tamworth" is a ballad of a kind once popular; there were "King Alfred and the Neatherd," "King Henry and the Miller," "King James I. and the Tinker," "King Henry VII. and the Cobbler," with a dozen more. "The Tanner of Tamworth" in another, perhaps older, form, as "The King and the Barker," was printed by Joseph Ritson in his "Ancient Popular Poetry."英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Stockmann. But you will never be able to do that by patching and tinkering at it--never! Take my word for it, Peter; I mean what I say, as deliberately and emphatically as possible.英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
Okay. Let's see if we can Tinker Tailor his ass.美剧 · 《Billions》
Getting to hiss and tinker with your little espresso erector set rather than pick through the Dumpster for your mangled steam wand.美剧 · 《Billions》
Tinkering away at an engine instead of fighting for freedom?美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》